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Are you paraphrasing ESR paraphrasing Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming? "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-
by marcpaq 7y ago
Are you paraphrasing ESR paraphrasing Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming?
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
Ref: http://philip.greenspun.com/research/ http://philip.greenspun.com/research/
P.S. This is not a comment on TFA. Congratulations to the author on making Python even more interactive.
- Torwald 7y agoI am not so sure anymore where I read it. This is interesting: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/032674.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/03... It refers to this, I guess. http://www.paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.html?viewfullsite=1 http://www.paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.html?viewfullsite=1 "If you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. At least, you notice this pattern if you are a Lisp hacker. Each one is progressively more like Lisp." This is the basic thought. Turns out PG wrote it more explicitly than ESR.